The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday announced that it had resumed the 2023 Direct Entry registration nationwide.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who made
this known at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, said that the DE
registration would come to a close on April 28, 2023.
While lamenting the high level of forgery of A Level
certificates used for the registration, Oloyede said the board had introduced
new guidelines to check such acts.
He said, “You will recall that the board commenced the 2023
Direct Entry registration on Monday, 20th February, 2023, but had to
immediately suspend it following the discovery of the plethora of devices and
machinations to circumvent and compromise the standard of A’ Level
qualifications required from DE candidates.
“Recall that recent joint operations of the Federal Ministry
of Education and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences
Commission on DE qualifications brought to light some of these unsavoury and
nefarious activities.
“Bayero University, Kano
has also consistently brought to the fore the high rate of forgery of A’
Level qualifications for DE.
For instance, it was discovered that in previous years, some
candidates used unacceptable and forged A’ level certificates/qualifications to
register for Direct Entry and eventually got admitted. For example, out of 148
candidates verified by BUK, only six were found to be genuine. By implication,
142 of the results were forged.
“The Board, concerned stakeholders and institutions are
working assiduously to detect such and the ones already found are being dealt
with according to the provisions of the law.”
Speaking further, Oloyede said the Board would only accept 13 qualifications/certificates for the
2023 Direct Entry registration, which include; first degree, university
diploma, Higher National Diploma, Ordinary National Diploma /National Diploma
and Nigeria Certificate in Education.
Others are Interim Joint Matriculation Board A’ Level, Joint
Universities Preliminary Examination Board A’ Level,
NABTEB Advanced National Business Certificate, NABTEB
Advanced National Technical Certificate,
NABTEB GCE-A’ Level (2015 – 2021), Higher Islamic Studies Certificate by
NBAIS, International Baccalaureate and
the National Registered Nurse /National
Registered Midwife.
He, however, said that the 127 candidates who had earlier
registered for the 2023 DE before the exercise was suspended would be requested
to return to the registration centres and update their application.
The JAMB boss also revealed that the data bank put in place
to address challenges associated with the A’ Level qualifications had now been
renamed as ‘Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System’.
On the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,
Oloyede said JAMB had introduced new measures in the conduct of the exam and
called for understanding.
“The Board has instituted some measures which are to be
deployed during the 2023 UTME exercise. Despite the fact that the innovations
have been tested and certified, yet it is not unlikely that some hiccups might
spring up when the new technology is deployed live and nationwide. We therefore
solicit your support and understanding as we promptly address any unforeseen
circumstances.
“One major feature of the new dispensation is that no
examination would be allowed to take place after one hour of its scheduled
start time because the Board has discovered that some of the problems reported
at the centres are contrived to delay the commencement of a session in some
centres with a view to securing undue advantage for the delayed candidates.
“Consequently, any session that, for whatever reason(s), could not take off within one hour of its schedule is automatically rescheduled. When such occurs, affected candidates are expected to file out of the examination hall into the waiting hall and await the new scheduled time and place which most likely would be the same or following day,” he said.
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